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To: sylvester80 who wrote (72067)	2/5/2005 3:38:16 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

The right wing argument (for those actually paying attention to more than just election day finger staining) is that the Iraqi Shiites aren't the same as the Iranian Shiites and, besides, the Iraqi Shiites are saying that they don't want a theocracy like Iran's. ROTFLMAO, from the NYTimes Message 21020583 "...Meanwhile:leading Shiite clerics are pushing for Islam to be enshrined in the new constitution, governing such matters as marriage, divorce and family inheritance. On other issues, opinion varies, with the more conservative leaders insisting that Shariah, or Koranic law, be the foundation for all legislation. Such a constitution would be a sharp departure from the transitional law that the Americans enacted before appointing the interim Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. One focus of the American effort then was to secure equal rights for women and minorities. But in the constitutional assembly, the American influence will be much reduced. Under Shariah, for instance, daughters would receive half the inheritances of sons.... ...But the clerics of Najaf, the holiest city of Shiite Islam, have emerged as the greatest power in the new Iraq. They forced the Americans to conform to their timetable for a political process. Their standing was bolstered last Sunday by the high turnout among Shiite voters and a widespread boycott by the minority Sunni Arabs, and the clerics will now wield enormous behind-the-scenes influence in the writing of the constitution by their coalition built around religious parties." ============ The Shiites have been demanding elections and the US kept dragging its feet. Remember when Bremmer said that Iraq could not have elections because it did not have a census? The Shiites then said that schoolteachers could easily go out and take a census as they have done in the past. Bremmer ignored that bit and the US finally caved AND Bush took political credit for what he didn't want in the first place. Kinda like the 911 Commission. Bush has sooooooooooooooooo many bad ideas. Invading Iraq and Killing SS are just two of his bad ideas.